Disclaimer: Hi hi puffy amiyumi show! Hi hi puffy amiyumi show! Hi hi puffy amiyumi show! Hi hi puffy amiyumi show! YAY! (Cheers and jumps around like a nut)

Thanks to:

Beastfire: Sprx: Wanna bet, Ivy? (Dangles picture above a pot of tea)

WF: (anime vein appears) If you do do that, then I'll set Fluffy on you (points at a ginger and whitecat which is savagely tearing up a toy monkey that just happens to be red)

Sprx: (sweat drops) Uh he he (gives WF the picture) here ya go! (Runs)

Anonymous But Interested: Phew! For a minute there I thought you'd lost interest! (Does peace sign) thanks though!

A Fan of Romance: Ichigo: (watches Nova and Sprx fight then shuffles closer to Antauri and cuddles him) Maybe we could 'expand the team' instead?

Antauri: (blushes like crazy and even gets a nosebleed) Umm... don't you think we're a bit young to think like that? I mean, maybe we should wait until- (gets cut off by Ichigo pouncing on him) never mind!

Nova: (stops arguing and covers her eyes) Get a room!

Sprx: (drooling and blushing) Or Ichigo can stay right there! (Gets smacked up the head by Nova and Antauri)

Antauri and Ichigo: (walk out of the room)

4Evermonkeyfan: Sprx: (grins like a mad monkey) I can't wait! (wrings hands)

Nova: (looks a little upset) well... I feel sorry for them! Whoever they are! (Walks out of room)

WF: (sighs) At this rate, no one's gonna be in the story! And I'm glad you think it was romantic! I wasn't too sure if it actually sounded sane! And I've read your story and reviewed it, although it was by e-mail not review thingy. (pouts) Stupid computer (kicks it)

SparxGirl: Ichigo: (appears looking slightly dishevelled) darn right I can! (Runs out again)

Life as the Other Half

"Holy monkey- doodle!" Ichigo cried, staring at the far wall, where someone was chained up. She blinked to make sure she wasn't seeing things, but, when she looked again, she had seen right. Before her, was a tall, monkey-like humanoid cybourg (that's a mouthful!) with bright red fur and short hair on its head, and white fur covering its chest, it had robot arms and the end of its long, red tail was metal and they were silver and its muzzle and feet was white. (I can draw a picture if you're confused by the descriptions) She noticed that it was male and promptly averted her eyes, deciding to take in the rest of her surroundings.

She saw that it was a similar laboratory to where she had been kept last time, when Mandarin... she froze in her musings and looked down at herself. To her utter shock, she seemed to be in a similar state as the red monkey person, she was a monkey humanoid too! Albeit, very much shorter than her companion but her hair was as long as it was when she was human, though it was blue now, and her arms and end of her tail were also metal but pink; behind her, her wings were pressed against the wall, and her chest was covered with pink fur, her legs were covered with blue and everything else was white. And she too was, unfortunately, unclothed,

"Wait, if I'm like this then that red monkey guy must be..." she faded off and looked up in fear as the guy began to stir. She shifted as much as possible, but as she was chained up against a wall, so there wasn't much freedom to move.

'Gotta think of something, how can I...'

"Hey, gorgeous alien babe" purred the red monkey guy, when he opened his eyes and saw Ichigo in her current situation, Ichigo blushed full force,

"Sprx!" she screamed, outraged and feeling very... well... naked. The monkey's eyes widened in shock and he nearly jumped through the wall behind him,

"Holy Shugazoom! Ichigo? Is that you?" he cried, blinking rapidly to make sure he wasn't seeing things. Ichigo sighed and nodded,

"Darn..." said Sprx, looking pretty awestruck, "you're hot!" A growl was heard nearby and they both turned to see Antauri, who was also transformed, glaring venomously at Sprx,

"When we get free, you'll regret saying that!" he hissed, before turning to Ichigo and his face softened

"Are you alright, Ichigo?" he asked, his voice now filled with concern,

"Apart from the fact that I'm a monkey human hybrid, have nothing covering me and we're all prisoners of Skeleton King? Fine" she answered lightly, trying to lift the dark atmosphere of the cell and their predicament. Antauri smiled slightly, glad to see Ichigo was in high spirits, and reached his tail over to her and wrapped it around hers. Ichigo watched Antauri do this and looked up at him, happily,

"So what are we going to do?" she asked, leaning the side of her face against the wall behind her and trying to make herself moderately comfortable. Antauri averted his eyes and felt his cheeks heat up slightly, before he shook his head and looked back at her,

"All we can do is wait for the others to wake up" he replied, shrugging slightly, but they didn't have to wait long because they soon heard a squeak followed by a slap,

"Ow!" shouted a voice in the corner that sounded like Gibson, "What was that for?" he asked,

"Sorry, Gibson" replied a sheepish sounding Nova, "I was aiming for that perverted freak, Sprx"

Ichigo and Antauri could feel the big smug grin on Sprx's face,

"Heh, c'mon Gorgeous! Y'know you want to get your hands on me and..." at this point, he broke off and gestured but the others could tell what he meant. Nova was heard banging against the wall,

"You low- life, vulgar, piece of..." she started,

"C'mon, you know you love me!" cut in Sprx's smarmy voice, everyone heard Nova scream in frustration.

Ichigo turned slightly so she could see Sprx sitting and not attempting at all to keep his modesty with Nova chained on the wall to her left looking psychotically murderous. Gibson was chained next to her and looked pretty scared as he kept trying to nudge himself further away from the rabid looking monkey girl, and Otto was chained up on the same wall as Sprx but was still unconscious and snoring slightly.

"Maybe we should wake up Otto?" suggested Ichigo, cutting short Nova's hissy fit. Everyone turned and looked at Otto,

"Forget it!" cried Sprx; he poked Otto with his tail, "that guy sleeps like a rock!" as he poked Otto in the head, Otto stirred slightly. Everyone looked at Sprx flatly, who just sweat dropped,

"Heh heh, hey! First time for everything!" Sprx cried defensively, as Otto sat up and stared around at everyone,

"Huh? What's going on?" he asked sleepily, Gibson filled him in on their current problem whilst the others tried to think of what to do next.

"Let's just bust out of here!" cried Nova, attempting to activate her weapons. Which, surprisingly, didn't work; when she gave up trying, they heard a sinister sounding laugh from above them. They looked up and an orange, mutated robot monkey jumped down and landed in the middle of their cell. He looked around, proudly at what was obviously his handiwork,

"I see that my experiments were successful!" he crowed, puffing up slightly, he walked around and looked at each of them with a critical eye. He 'hmm'ed' and muttered under his breath, whilst the monkey team glared at him.

Finally, he stopped and walked over to Ichigo. He knelt down and held her face in his hand,

"LET GO OF HER!" bellowed Antauri furiously as he kicked about wildly. Surprised by the sudden outburst, Mandarin actually complied and stared at him in shock, before composing himself again and smirking at Antauri,

"Why, my dear brother?" he asked, sounding much like a Cheshire Cat, taking Ichigo's face in his hand again, Antauri growled and pulled against the chains again. Mandarin tutted and held Ichigo's face closer,

"Such a temper, you have! And so sudden! Why, my dear brother is it so important that I don't touch this monkey, hmm? Why is she so special?" he asked in a smug sort of voice as he ran his hands over her face, Ichigo twisted to try and pull out of his grip but he recaptured her face again each time.

"Leave... me... alone!" she struggled as Mandarin leaned in to her and sighed,

"Such a beautiful specimen..." he murmured, looking up and down her, "a perfect mate!" everyone choked and stared bug eyed at the large orange monkey.

"You're kidding?" cried Nova, looking horrified,

"She's just a child!" reasoned Gibson,

"You're sick, man!" shouted Otto, who was now wide awake at that comment, and turning a little greener,

"That's just wrong!" wailed Sprx, scrunching up his nose in disgust and looking away,

"If you even touch her" threatened Antauri in a low voice that was filled with anger,

"I'll tear you apart!"

Ichigo said nothing, but she sat there looking utterly terrified and was shaking all over, Mandarin looked down at her with the same look that one would give a trophy or prize, he looked over at the others briefly and turned back to her,

"You have many high opinions" he muttered to them as he gazed into Ichigo's large, fearful eyes, "but, fortunately, these opinions are unimportant!"

"Mandarin..." said Antauri in his reasoning voice, "don't do this. You know you will regret it in the end, just leave her be!"

Mandarin stood up and one could hear him chuckling bitterly,

"Regret this? Oh no, Antauri, I don't believe I will. I will just be finishing what I planned for this vixen the whole time, before you stole her away" he glared angrily at Antauri; he grabbed Antauri's neck and squeezed it slightly. Antauri coughed and gasped for breath,

"You've stolen everything from me before, Antauri, you will not steal this too!" he whispered darkly, before releasing him and turning back to Ichigo.

"Forgive the interruption, my dear" he said curtly, and snapped his fingers. At once, the chains on Ichigo's wrists and ankles came off the wall and levitated her above the ground, making her following Mandarin as he walked out of the cell.

Ichigo pulled back, trying to pull them away, trying not to follow her captor. She was electrocuted in return for her efforts and was forced to give up; she looked back at Antauri with misery and sadness and felt tears cascade down her face when she saw that Antauri looked as miserable as she did.

"I love you" she whispered to him, before the door slammed shut in her face.

Ichigo let the tears fall freely and Mandarin turned to look at her,

"Don't be upset, my dear" he cooed in an attempt to comfort her, it didn't work, "you are simply fulfilling your destiny"

"As what?" she grumbled bitterly, "As your bed slave? As the girl who'll churn out thousands of offspring for you? I don't think so" Mandarin chuckled quietly and held her close,

"As my wife, of course! Together, we shall rule the universe with an iron fist! Nothing will get in our way!"

"Your way!" she corrected, trying to squirm out of his grip, "I don't want anything to do with you!" Mandarin smiled in a sinister way and held her chin up,

"Oh, it's too late for that, my dear. Much too late" he replied, before pulling her into a forceful kiss. Ichigo lashed out the best she could and whined against his mouth, but all that was in vain and the only thought that rang through her head was 'too late...much too late'

(Geez! That was dark wasn't it? So here's some humour!)

"You little stinky hairballs are dead!" yelled Chiro, chasing the monkeys at the zoo around the cages, the monkeys leapt out of his way and laughed at him as they dangled his wallet and keys in front of his face. He made a swipe for them and the monkeys pulled the items away at the last moment, he tried again much to the same end and again. Eventually, he screamed in frustration and, in desperation, began climbing the wire, the monkeys laughed at his awkward climbing and causally laid around, waiting for him to be nearer.

"Hah, almost there!" he said, before losing his balance and falling of the fence, right in the water trough. The monkeys went crazy, laughing, screeching and pointing at the fallen hero. Chiro felt the water around him steam as he got angrier and angrier until...

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Chiro roared as he unleashed the Power Primate and the large, green gorilla stared down at the monkeys, who freaked out and ran as fast as they could, dropping the wallet and keys.

"Yes!" shouted Chiro, reverting to normal and picking up his stuff, "now to get out of here!" He paused and looked around; he spotted the door and went over to it.

But, unfortunately, the door had locked behind him and he was now trapped in with a bunch of monkeys until someone got him out... Or he would've been, had he been a normal kid,

"Thunder Punch!" he cried as he punched in the wire door and calmly walked out the hole. The monkeys whooped and ran for freedom, causing Chiro to sweat drop and realise what he'd done.

"I guess I better go get them" he said sheepishly before stepping on something, "huh?" he picked it up "Ichigo's necklace!" and he spotted the Formless goo close by, Chiro narrowed his eyes in contempt, he looked back at the necklace and held it tightly, "Skeleton King and Mandarin" he growled, before taking off towards the Super Robot.

Ichigo: EEEEEEWW! You made me kiss Mandarin! (Runs off to disinfect her mouth)

WF: (sweat drops) Yeah... (Notices Antauri) You OK?

Antauri: (turns to her) ...you're dead! (Chases WF whilst threatening her)

Nova: (sighs) Review please! (Mumbles) Now to find some clothes...